Night night, sleep well, sweet dreams Yogi(feel better soon), Rosss and visitors 
@El Loro posted:On the BBC site some photos of this morning's solar eclipse:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53120704
Happened at 4.45 am BST but was only visible in parts of Africa and Asia so wasn't possible to see here,
They are fantastic EL very atmospheric especially the photo with the bird-looks like a Crow Raven or Rook
night yogihope you feel better soonmoonsie velvet summer if you are around later
Good morning everyone it's a nice bright morning. Pleasant at the moment but I hope the high temperatures aren't too high. I don't like it when it's too hot to sleep.
Enjoy your day everyone 
Good morning everyone
Sunny and a warm day here. Forecast to be hot later this week though may not be treated as a heatwave other than the South East as may be for a couple of days (heatwave has to be at least 3 days to be announced as such).
I hope everyone has a good day
@squiggle posted:I've had a call on the landline from EL who tells me that unfortunately he has no internet or phone access at the moment as there is a fault with Virgin Media. He asked me to let Lori know as well so following his instructions here goes @Lori I hope that will alert her.
Thanks Squiggle for posting this
Phone and internet seem to be working at present but I don't know if they will go down again. Virgin said they were sending out an engineer and hoped it would be sorted out by this evening. I've had the internet down before but never the phone as well. Use my mobile to ask Squiggle to post a message and to get in touch with a couple of clients who might have been trying to ring me and not getting anywhere. Mobile coverage is so poor here that I only use it for emergencies rather than all the time.
@Lori posted:
Thanls Lori 
Seems back to normal now. The problem wouldn't have been at my house but possibly at one of their relay cabinets serving my area. Virgin Media status site now showing no fault so looks as if the engineer has sorted it. Besides internet and phone, their cable television (which I don't have) was also down.
Glad you're back up and running El
@velvet donkey posted:Glad you're back up and running El
Thanks Velvet
@El Loro posted:Thanks Velvet
Welcome El
night yogi hope you feel better soon moonsie velvet summer
I hope she does soon too Ros
I like Yogi. She's my voice of reason
Night all
Good morning everyone it's a lovely clear morning the first of the hot days, I hope everyone manages to stay comfortable.
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning everyone
Sunny and hotting up here, Tomorrow and Thursday are forecast to be hotter, then it breaks down on Friday,
Moonie, thanks Cheltenham Town weren't the same as the first leg. Still a decent season for them. If they had been promoted they would have had to spend a lot of money to have any chance of success in League One and if that didn't work they would land up with big financial problems. They aren't a big club financially, so, in an odd way, it's possibly a good thing they didn't get promoted. I think I mentioned before that years ago I had a client who used to be a director of Cheltenham Town and he told me that financially promotion could be disastrous. It's not easy for them to find a big local business to bankroll them as those are more likely to invest in the Cheltenham horse racing as the high profile sporting venue.
I hope eveyone has a good day
@El Loro posted:Good morning everyone
Sunny and hotting up here, Tomorrow and Thursday are forecast to be hotter, then it breaks down on Friday,
Moonie, thanks
I hope eveyone has a good day
I think you could be right El 
@Moonie posted:Good morning everyone
A sunny start to the day here. The first of four hotties
We are set for 26, 29, 29 and 27 degrees
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Have a great day everyone but stay safe and stay well hydrated
Hotter here:
BBC forecast 27, 31,32 and 26 degrees
Met Office forecast 27, 30, 30 and 27 degrees
By Saturday, back down to 21 degrees.
Met Office changed heatwave watch level to level 2 - alert and readiness yesterday. Some regions might get changed to level 3 which is the heatwave action threshold. Although Wednesday and Thursday are above the heatwave thresholds, Friday's is less certain which is why it's currently level 2 rather than 3. If a heatwave was announced it would probably cover the East of England, the South East, London and possibly my area, Less likely for the rest of the country.
(Met Office heatwave watch alerts only covers England).
@El Loro posted:Hotter here:
BBC forecast 27, 31,32 and 26 degrees
Met Office forecast 27, 30, 30 and 27 degrees
By Saturday, back down to 21 degrees.Met Office changed heatwave watch level to level 2 - alert and readiness yesterday. Some regions might get changed to level 3 which is the heatwave action threshold. Although Wednesday and Thursday are above the heatwave thresholds, Friday's is less certain which is why it's currently level 2 rather than 3. If a heatwave was announced it would probably cover the East of England, the South East, London and possibly my area, Less likely for the rest of the country.
(Met Office heatwave watch alerts only covers England).
Talking Pictures has a couple of good classic comedy films on later today.
At 17.30 there's the 1941 American film "The Devil and Miss Jones" (Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings and Charles Coburn). A millionaire owner of a store (Coburn) goes under cover at the store as a sales clerk to check up on employees. (if you were to look at the IMDB front page for that film you would see a post made by a reviewer who has made an error which doesn't seem to have been spotted - reviewer has Charles Laughton instead of Charles Coburn 
- Laughton was a good actor but would have been wrong for that part).
That's followed by the Ealing classic "Passport to Pimlico" (1949) at 19.20. Most of you (quite possibly everyone) has seen the film before. Indubitably one of Margaret Rutherford's most notable roles 
If you haven't seen it, it's a must watch.
@El Loro posted:Talking Pictures has a couple of good classic comedy films on later today.
At 17.30 there's the 1941 American film "The Devil and Miss Jones" (Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings and Charles Coburn). A millionaire owner of a store (Coburn) goes under cover at the store as a sales clerk to check up on employees. (if you were to look at the IMDB front page for that film you would see a post made by a reviewer who has made an error which doesn't seem to have been spotted - reviewer has Charles Laughton instead of Charles Coburn
That's followed by the Ealing classic "Passport to Pimlico" (1949) at 19.20. Most of you (quite possibly everyone) has seen the film before. Indubitably one of Margaret Rutherford's most notable roles
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
@Moonie posted:The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Before then "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (1933). In the history of British films, that's one of the most important films ever made as the success of it brought British films to the attention of the world rather than just this country.
And "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957) probably his best role of his later film career (and one of the best Agatha Christie films - it was based on a play she wrote and isn't a Poirot or Miss Marple one). (was remade as one of those BBC things a few years ago - never watch those things as I don't regard them as Agatha Christie).
And then the one film Laughton directed , "The Night of the Hunter" (1955). (Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish). A failure at the box office which is why he never directed again. But over the years it's reputation has soared and is now regarded as a masterpiece. Mitchum's best film as a psychopathic "preacher" who is after the hidden proceeds of a robbery and goes to any lengths to find it. It's a frightening film but is essentailly an allegory of love (Gish) and evil (Mitchum) and the innocence of young children. What makes this film unique is that there are scenes of true beauty and love. And love conquers evil.
@El Loro posted:Before then "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (1933). In the history of British films, that's one of the most important films ever made as the success of it brought British films to the attention of the world rather than just this country.
And "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957) probably his best role of his later film career (and one of the best Agatha Christie films - it was based on a play she wrote and isn't a Poirot or Miss Marple one). (was remade as one of those BBC things a few years ago - never watch those things as I don't regard them as Agatha Christie).
And then the one film Laughton directed , "The Night of the Hunter" (1955). (Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish). A failure at the box office which is why he never directed again. But over the years it's reputation has soared and is now regarded as a masterpiece. Mitchum's best film as a psychopathic "preacher" who is after the hidden proceeds of a robbery and goes to any lengths to find it. It's a frightening film but is essentailly an allegory of love (Gish) and evil (Mitchum) and the innocence of young children. What makes this film unique is that there are scenes of true beauty and love. And love conquers evil.
I have seen all the films you mentioned above El
@Moonie posted:I have seen all the films you mentioned above El
Two of Laughton's films which you may not have seen are "Rembrandt" (1936) which I saw many years ago and his final film "Advise and Consent" (1962) which I've never seen though it's supposed to be good.
And if you've ever seen his 1937 film "I Claudius" you would be the only person who has as the film was never completed (a 1976 documentary called "The Epic that Never Was" was made about this and did include what footage there was)
@El Loro posted:Two of Laughton's films which you may not have seen are "Rembrandt" (1936) which I saw many years ago and his final film "Advise and Consent" (1962) which I've never seen though it's supposed to be good.
And if you've ever seen his 1937 film "I Claudius" you would be the only person who has as the film was never completed (a 1976 documentary called "The Epic that Never Was" was made about this and did include what footage there was)
I havenât seen any of those El 
@Moonie posted:I havenât seen any of those El
I thought that might be the case "Rembrandt" was directed and produced by Alexander Korda who had also directed and produced "The Private Life of Henry VIII" so the two are connected (Laugton's wife Elsa Lanchester was also in both). Korda also produced that "I Claudius" film. He didn't direct that though, Josef von Sternberg did. Not the easiest director to get on with, best known films were made before then, the early Marlene Dietrich films including "The Blue Angel" (1930) (A Geman film but included her famous "Falling in Love Again" song).
Good film knowledge El. Very good
Think I read that Burt Lancaster was hard to work with. Once had Winner suspended from a balcony if it's not myth. I've got The Swimmer recorded, let's see if I can work it out this time. There are a good few oddities popping up in TP at the mo Forget Sky films.
Hope all are okay as always
I watched a funny British black comedy film last night which I hadn't seen for some time.
It was made in the mid 1950s.
It had some very well known British actors in.
There were a number of fatalities during the film.
It featured a string trio. So it's not The Ladykillers as there it was a string quintet.
Actually it was "The Green Man" (1957) (Alastair Sim and George Cole in the main parts, but also Terry-Thomas, Raymond Huntley and others). It's a good film but not in the same league as The Ladykillers. Written and produced by Sidney Gilliat who also did "Green for Danger" (1946) which also has Alastair Sim which is a very good film (and was based on a book by Christianna Brand who wrote the "Nurse Matilda" books which Emma Thompson used for her two Nanny McPhee films)
I'd better get back to work
Fair play to them too
Public service broadcasting.
Now bring back Edgar Wallace.
NCIS is an American series which has been going on for many years as it's the most popular series in the States.
Episode 13 of series 14 called "Keep Going" is regarded as one of the very best episodes (and is the only one I've kept a recording of). Other than the hit and run at the beginning there's no violence, minimal action, but utterly riveting.
At present, if you've got Amazon Prime you can watch it for free:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/vi...utoplay=1&t=1255
You don't need any knowledge of the series or the characters. The one episode of the series which is worth watching even if the series as a whole is of no appeal to you.